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One-third of Germany’s electricity demand in 2015 was provided by renewable energy, with onshore wind and solar PV leading the way. Renewables academic Volker Quaschning published the findings today, compiling the data from a range of sources.

Data from Ofgem shows that Scotland added 39 MW of solar PV capacity in 2015, a 28% increase in the space of a year. Cumulative capacity north of the border now stands at 179 MW.

The troubled renewable energy giant is delivering on its promise to lower debt levels, while still keeping more renewable energy projects within reach.

Around 0.5% of Mexican residences reported a PV installation in 2015. Statistics from Mexico’s INEGI show Baja California Sur and Durango as the states with the highest penetration of solar PV in homes at 2.1%.

NYSERDA is allocating unused funds for residential and small commercial installations under NY-Sun’s MW Block incentive program.

Solar installation is located in the state of Bahia in Brazil’s northeast, and will be built at a cost of $400 million, according to Enel Green Power.

Li Hejun to sell 2.5 billion shares to unnamed buyer at fraction of previously traded price as analysts calculate Hanergy Thin Film is worth $20 billion less than since trading was suspended.

Famous musician and popstar Akon is figurehead and founder of the Akon Lighting Africa initiative, which has provided affordable solar power to more than one million Africans. Akon’s goal, with the help of his business partners Samba Bathily and Thione Niang – co-founders of Solektra International – is to bring solar energy to 600 million people in Africa. pv magazine caught up with all three at the recent COP21 UN Climate Change Summit in Paris to talk about this initiative.

The world’s largest monocrystalline wafer producer will expand its cell capacity at subsidiary LERRI Solar by 2 GW by the end of 2017.

EnergySage’s first report of small-to-mid-sized U.S. solar installers found both a high level of competition and increasingly savvy consumers.